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Problems of American geology; a series of lectures dealing with some of the problems of the Canadian shield and of the Cordilleras, delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation, in December, 1913, by William North Rice .. [et al.]
Bib ID 89021
Format BookBook
Description New Haven, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.] 1915 
xvii, 505 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 
Series

Yale University. Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures

Full contents
  • Preface, by C. Schuchert.
  • The geology of James Dwight Dana, by W.N. Rice.
  • Problems of the Canadian shield
  • the Archaeozoic, by F.D. Adams.
  • The Proterozoic of the Canadian shield and its problems, by A.P. Coleman.
  • The Cambrian and its problems in the Cordilleran region, by C.D. Walcott.
  • The igneous geology of the Cordilleras and its problems, by W. Lindgren.
  • The Tertiary orogeny of the North American Cordillera and its problems, by F.L. Ransome.
  • The Tertiary sedimentary record and its problems, by W.D. Matthew.
 
Notes

On cover: Dana commemorative lectures.

Subjects Dana, James Dwight, - 1813-1895.  |  Geology - Canada.  |  Geology - United States.  |  Geology - Rocky Mountains.
Other authors/contributors Rice, William North, 1845-1928

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